Protests in Prague and Brno over change to public broadcaster funding law in Czechia
Summary
The Czech parliament's lower house, voting at 4:36 am on Saturday, backed on first reading a bill to fund Czech Television and Czech Radio directly from the state budget instead of licence fees, without legal guarantees of editorial independence, prompting protests in Prague, a call to rally in Brno, and concern from international press organisations. The opposition has announced a complaint to the Constitutional Court, and the two broadcasters have announced a one-day strike for 3 November.
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Vlada češkog premijera Andreja Babiša uspela je rano jutros, posle noćne burne rasprave, da progura ukidanje pretplate za javni radio i TV servis u drugo
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- Prag · City / settlement
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- Brno · City / settlement
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Brno is marked because the civic initiative Milion trenutaka za demokratiju called for protests there that day, while Bulgaria, Latvia and Slovenia are unrelated to this event in Prague and Brno.
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5 reports · 4 sources
- 02:00 AMFederalna televizijaOpen the original
- 08:31 AMN1 SrbijaOpen the original
- 08:47 AMVijestiOpen the original
- 08:53 AMBUKA (6yka)Open the original
- 09:13 AMN1 SrbijaOpen the original
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